Demo: STEEL BATTALION HEAVY ARMOR DEMO

Content: STEEL BATTALION HEAVY ARMOR DEMOPrice: Free Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE RegionDash Text: This all-new game revives the fan-favorite Steel Battalion series! Microsoft has joined forces with Capcom and From Software to bring you this groundbreaking collaborative project to the Xbox 360. Manhattan, 2082. In a world where computers and almost all modern technology has been lost, the greatest nations of the world continue to battle for hegemony. The American army lands in New York to begin it’s first big offensive of a long ground war. Soldiers fire from the trenches as scorched bunkers belch black smoke. As comrades continually fall to the unrelenting crossfire of bullets, the Vertical Tanks make their laborious advance… Experience the battlefield as never before with Kinect! This is what gamers have been waiting for!

I enjoyed the demo but my Kinect is plugged into a standard def TV and I could barely see a thing. (it it weren’t for the red indicator above enemies heads I wouldn’t be able to see at all) I enjoyed the Kinect controls a lot though first thing I did was raise the roof and seeing those arms made me laugh. Will probably be picking this up but I might have to move my kinect over to my computer monitor to play this.

I loved the first game. It was gritty, hardcore, and it made you feel like you were controlling a mech. The new Steel Battalion game is technically better on graphics, but the first game had that gritty look that made it feel and made it look better, more real and the gameplay of the original was awesome. Also flicking all the switches on the controller just to start up the robot gave me a feeling of realism I’ve yet to experience from another game.

So needless to say I was REALLY excited to play the new Steel Battalion. I’ll get to the point. This game is garbage. The grittiness feeling of the first game is gone, including the graphic style. The controls don’t work as well and the overall game feels very different. The gameplay is horrible to boot and controlling the mech is awkeward. Me and my cousin were big fans of the first one, and when we sat down to play the demo, our mouths just dropped, not in a good way. Based on the demo, I’m not expecting good reviews for this game at all.